    David’s song is one of gratitude, the thanksgiving of a man who has lived his entire life under God’s grace and knows full well that it is God from which all of the blessings he has enjoyed have come. How often do we share that same gratitude and thanksgiving? It is an amazing thing just to be alive, let alone to have the talents, abilities, possessions, and capabilities that we have at our disposal everyday. Through faith, we know that we have these things because God has graciously given them to us. More importantly, faith reminds us that we have these things because God wants us to use them in His service.
    That is the true secret of David’s gratitude, a secret that should be ours as well, and that secret is that we should thank God most of all that He has given us a chance to live our lives for Him through our faith in Jesus Christ His son that He sent to die on our behalf. Because we have that chance because of faith, we also have the promise of Heaven, and it is Heaven that makes us thankful for everything God has done for us, because we know that God will preserve us to make sure we get there.
DLH
